Your favorite type of A/C piston engine?

[Oreo]

We're talking about for WWII combat types, not types you'd see in great numbers at the airports today-- or in the air in WWI, for that matter.

 

[Oreo]

Love that radial sound!

 

[FLYBOYJ]

I did other - opposed - because they are so easy to work on!!!!!

 

[Jgonzalez]

Radial or Vee, that is the question. I know radials have their pros, but vees have them too. I personaly like the streamline posbilities that vees gave to aeronautic design, contrary to de bulky radial engines. I must say the Napier Sabre H24 engine was quite radical and massive...

Here is a rare bug... the caproni-campini n.1, a piston engine without props.
Caproni Campini N.1 (CC.2) - research aircraft

 

[kool kitty89]

FLYBOYJ,
You're referring to flat engines/ horizontally opposed engines, right? (not Opposed piston engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia like the Jumo 205/207 used on some Ju 86's)

 

[Oreo]

I did other - opposed - because they are so easy to work on!!!!!

I almost put that as an option, because there were a few WWII planes, especially the L-types, that used them. . . .

 

[JugBR]

radial was the most used and the most reliable engine, but its a very hard question, since war is not only speed(ill prefer the v´s then), but is also reliabilty, endurance, comsuption, resistance against enemy fire...etc and theres also many manufacturers and many diferent qualities of work.

flyboy, do have a vw beetle anytime ? you can cross sahara with those stuffs !

oposed too !

 

[kool kitty89]

especially the L-types, that used them

What are you referring to?

 

[Wildcat]

I like the look and sound of a big radial engine myself.

 

[marshall]

What are you referring to?

Maybe he was thinking about Taylorcraft L-2, Aeronca L-3 and Piper L-4?

All with flat-4 engines.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

FLYBOYJ,
You're referring to flat engines/ horizontally opposed engines, right? (not Opposed piston engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia like the Jumo 205/207 used on some Ju 86's)

Like on the O-200 or IO-540.

 

[trackend]

I am a radial fan but the 36 litre Griffon makes a nice noise

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Well since the DB 605 is my favorite engine from World War 2 (because it powers my favorite aircraft), I will have to to go with the inverted Vee.

 

[Lucky13]

Between a rock and a hard place if you ask me....I like the radial and the vee's...

 

[Screaming Eagle]

I have always liked the packard merlins, but then again the R-2800s have powered some of my favourite WW2 a/c

 

[SoD Stitch]

Like on the O-200 or IO-540.

I went with the inverted-vee, because a DB603 (actually, two of them) power MY favorite aircraft (see my signature for a clue!).

However, a couple of Continental O-360's got me around for a while (any guesses, FLYBOYJ?), so I like "boxer" engines, also.

 

[Gnomey]

Got to love the sound of the Merlin, but if I could vote twice I would of - Vee and Radial. But as it is only one of them I voted for the Vee.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

However, a couple of Continental O-360's got me around for a while (any guesses, FLYBOYJ?), so I like "boxer" engines, also.

Duchess?

 

[SoD Stitch]

Duchess?

Actually, it was a Cessna 337 "Skysmasher"; my family used it quite a bit back in the '80's '90's to commute back forth between our mountain home. Nothing else sounds like a Skymaster; I can still tell one just from listening to it.